Improvement in vegetable-cutters



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FRANOISQUEMONNET. or Newton-K, N..Y.

Letters Patent No. 113,138, dated March 2s, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT' I N VEG ETABLE-CUTTERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part cf the same.

To all whom it may conce/ru.-

can be cut from vegetables moved back and forth in said trough.

My invention consists in combining, with the trough and knife, means for subdividing the slices of vegetable substances, so that, instead of the 4said vegetable substances being delivered iu the form of thin slices they are delivered in small strips.

In the drawing- Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of my vegetablecutter;

. Figure 2 is a cross-section at the line xa:

Figure 3is a plan of the trough;

Figure liis ajplan of the vegetable-holder, detached; and

Figures 5 and 6 are longitudinal and transverse sections of cutting-tubes for producing round strips of the vegetable substances.

The trough is made of side pieces a a, upon suitable end pieces or legs b b, and a drawer, c, is" provided for receiving the cut-vegetable; and this may have divisions, d d, within it, the same being slipped into grooves so as to be removable.

The side pieces a a of the .trough form slidesfor the reception of the bottom portionl c f 'of said trough. t Y The knife y is connected with the bottom portion f, and the other portidn, e, is adjustable by the screw h, so as to move it endwise and give a greater or lesser width of opening for the slice of vegetable material cut by the knife g.

`The end of the bottom e adjacent to the knife g mayI be either plain or made with projecting lanceformed cutters. -When these lance-formed cutters are introduced, as seen at t' t, iig. 3, .the vegetable materialis divided by longitudinal incisions, and delivered in strips of awidth corresponding tothe distances between the lance-formed cutters it'. lI, however, lay no claim to 'the knives shown in figs. 1, 2, and 3, as` they are onlyV represented in connection with. my improved box, hereafter described, for holding the material .to be cut.

My improved knife g is made as a series of tubes, as represented in ligs. 5 and 6. The vegetable material will be cut up into round strips and intervening' segmental strips.

The construction of trough shown allows for remov ing one knife and inserting the other, the box for holding the material to be cut being available with either form of knife. i

The vegetable material is contained in the holder or box m, that is fitted to slide betweeu'the sides a a.

ofthe trough, and the follower n is employed to hold and press down such vegetable material.

The center-piece and handles o o, rising above said follower n, and passing between the standards p, give a convenient means for reciprocating the holder m and simultaneously pressing the vegetable material down to the knife, and thereby risk of cutting the ngers is avoided. j

In order to,divide up the vegetable material transversely into lengths I make use of a frame of knives,

.s, suspended in the box m, just above the knife g, by

the hooks 7; vand the .transverse knives, in this frame are made with the cutting-edges at the top so as to separate the vegetable material as pressed upon them. Thesevknives also aid in holdingthe material while being cut by the knife g.

. I claim as my invention-` 1. The tubular knives g, shown in figs. 5 and 6, in

combination withthe holder m, for vegetable substances, sustained in the slides a, and reciprocated, as set forth.

2. The. frame of knives s, within the box fm, to separate the vegetable material, in combination with the follower n, and knife g, for the purposes set forth.

Dated October 13, A. D. 1870.

MONNET, FBANOISQUE.

Witnesses: V

' Gno. D WALKER, GEO. T. PINGKNEY. 

